The countryside that taught the rest of the world what countryside should look like, with cypress spines, vine rows, and stone that has watched a thousand harvests. You don't decorate a Tuscan wedding so much as borrow a view and set a long table in front of it.
Italy recognises civil unions, not same-sex marriage, so a same-sex wedding in Tuscany is a symbolic ceremony, and couples make the legal marriage at home or in a marriage-equality country (nearby Spain or Portugal are common). Opposite-sex couples can hold a legally binding civil marriage here. Either way, the celebration is yours; only the paperwork has a postcode.
It is less an event than a slow weekend. Couples take a villa or a whole stone hamlet for several days, and the wedding becomes the centre of a longer gathering, with welcome dinners under fig trees, lazy mornings by a pool, a ceremony as the light goes gold, and then a feast that runs until the candles do. The land does the heavy lifting, so the design budget goes further than it would almost anywhere else.
Three corners of the region pull in slightly different directions. None is more correct than another; they are simply moods. The three below are the ones worth knowing first.
We are mapping Tuscany sub-area by sub-area, from Chianti to the Val d'Orcia to the Maremma. Be first as each one opens, with the honest legal notes that come with it.
The quiz reads your taste and points you to the regions, and the kind of ceremony, that fit you.